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Star Europe takes first Airbus A320
Star Europe, a French charter airline, has introduced two 180-seat CFM International CFM56-powered Airbus A320s on lease from US company GATX. The aircraft, which are replacing Boeing 737s, are being used on the carrier's European charter services. Star Europe is a division of French tour company Look Voyages. ...
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Flying Colours paints long-haul fleet plans
Flying Colours Airlines is planning to increase its narrowbody fleet to eight Boeing 757-200s within three years, and has begun evaluating the Airbus A330-200 and Boeing 777 for its long-haul expansion plans, according to chairman Errol Cossey. The new UK charter carrier took delivery of its first aircraft, ...
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Boeing to discuss 747-400IGW-
Boeing has added growth-weight and "simple-stretch" derivatives of its 747-400 to product-development plans, following its decision to shelve work on the 747-500X and -600X. An initial version, which is called the 747-400 increased-gross-weight (IGW), would offer a modest increase in range, compared with the existing -400. This could ...
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Lufthansa passes EU eco-audit scrutiny
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has become the first aircraft maintenance and overhaul firm to win certification under the European Union's (EU) ecology-audit regulations. Certification is voluntary, but LHT says that it differentiates the firm from its competitors, and provides "a systematic view of the environmental impact of our activities". ...
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In search of the new jet age
Time was when the regional-aircraft industry was focused on who would win the battle to build a family of 70- to 120-seat jet-powered aircraft. Strategists toiled to demonstrate how such a family would sit beneath the fleets of the majors. Much has changed since then. Now, the focus ...
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-as board approves 777-200X/300X specifications
Boeing has received board approval to firm up the specifications of its proposed 777-200X/300X growth derivatives and offer them to airlines, as the company gears up towards a possible launch of the new models at the Paris air show in June. Boeing claims that the -200Xwill be the ...
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Monarch chooses the A330 for long-haul charter work
Monarch Airlines has become the first UK airline to order the Airbus Industrie A330, having concluded a preliminary agreement with the consortium for up to four long range -200s, including two options. The airline, which has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines, will take delivery of the two firmly ...
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Ireland plans expansion with ATP
Ireland Airways is close to finalising a lease deal with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) for three new British Aerospace ATP aircraft to enable it to expand its Irish domestic services. The airline, a spin-off of Dublin-based freight carrier EI Air Exports, began scheduled services in 1996, when it ...
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IPTN focuses on higher capacity for N2130 regional family
IPTN has dropped plans to develop a shortened, 80-seat, version of the planned N2130 short-haul jet-airliner and instead opted for a larger-aircraft family with six-abreast seating for between 104 and 132 passengers. The Indonesian manufacturer had intended building three different sizes of N2130, seating 80, 100 and 130 ...
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Lufthansa Cityline
Lufthansa is fighting hub congestion by offering an increasing number of direct city-to-city flights, both within Germany and to destinations in Europe, avoiding its hubs at Frankfurt and Munich. Flying 320 flights daily to European centres on routes for which traffic is too light for a 100-seat aircraft is the ...
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BA Levant deal
British Airways has resurrected its franchise arrangement with its erstwhile UK rival British Mediterranean, for the routes from London to Beirut, Damascus and Amman. The carrier will also launch new BA routes to Tbilisi and Alexandria. Source: Airline Business
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Foreign feat
After completing a probationary period of charter flights, Taiwan's Far Eastern Air Transport plans to launch its first international scheduled services to Guam, with other Asian destinations to follow. The country's largest domestic carrier, which is controlled by China Airlines and the American International Group, is also seeking stock market ...
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Finnair merits a mention
Your February feature on SAS included comments such as an SAS executive talking of 'a bunch of competitors snapping at SAS' heels'. I was surprised to find mention of smaller competitors at Stockholm, such as Braathens Safe, but no mention of Finnair. We established Arlanda as our second ...
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Why the customer must still be king
Survival is key for airlines but their main focus should be on the passenger. British Airways' chief executive Bob Ayling was recently asked what he would do to change the aeronautical world were he given the power to do so. His answer went along these lines: 'It's flattering to be ...
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El Al tackles weekend trip
The Israeli government is coming under fierce pressure to lift the ban on flag carrier El Al's operations on the Sabbath. The limitation of a six-day operation is blamed for $50 million of the airline's $120 million loss in 1996 and contributed to last year's shelving of its planned privatisation. ...
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United target on legal front
Low-fare carriers in the US are avidly watching how a predatory pricing complaint against United Airlines by one of their number, Frontier Airlines, pans out. A win for the minnow could encourage other no-frills operators to follow suit. Denver-based Frontier has asked the Department of Justice to investigate ...
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Surviving the customer
Innovation has always been difficult in the airline business. The basic airline product is uniform throughout the industry, and any incremental change by one carrier is usually taken up by its competitors quickly - if it is successful. To survive and stay ahead of their competitors, airlines are constantly looking ...
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Startups slot into Japan
Japan's incumbent carriers are bracing for their first tussle with new competition in four decades, though analysts doubt that air travellers' expectations of dramatically reduced fares will be met. The incumbents are also facing a battle for the 40 new slots that will be created at Tokyo/Haneda when ...
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Competition rules, ok?
The buy/sell slot rules in the US are premised on the simple proposition that the market is better at determining the efficient use of a scarce resource than is an administrative or bureaucratic entity. Competition rules, however, are a different matter and properly the province of governments. To ...